Railway Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Viaduct. 4 related planning applications.
Railway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- empty-landing-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Railway Viaduct, Lumb
- OS grid reference
- SD 789 198
- Coordinates
- 53.67431, -2.31993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Railway Viaduct, built in 1846, carries the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway over the River Irwell. The acting engineers were J.S. Perring and Sturges Meek. The structure is made of rock-faced sandstone and red brick. It features nine segmental arches, each spanning 40 feet and standing 60 feet high. The arches have punched voussoirs and red brick soffits, supported by rock-faced battered piers.
Local climate
Railway Viaduct sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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